Improved meat-chopping machine



'SARGENT & CHESLEY,

, Meat Chopper.-

I Patented June 217, 3

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. SARGENT AND PLUMER H. OHESLEY, OF CHELSEA, MASS.

IMPROVED MEAT-CHOPPING MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,451, dated June 27,1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. SARGENT. and PLUMER H. OHEsLEY, ofChelsea, in the county of Sufi'olk and State of Massachusetts,haveinvented new and useful Improvementsin Machinesfor OhoppingMeat,Fish, and Vegetatables; and we do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective View. Fig. 2represents a section of the tub in which the meat is chopped, togetherwith the block in the bottom of the tub; also, thestandard orpost whichpasses through the center of the tub, by which the tub is guidedin itsrotary motion, and also the ratchet by which the tub is given its rotarymotion; Fig. 3 represents the rod to which the knives are attached, thechamber on the rod, the crank-shaft acting in the chamber giving theknives, as shown, their upward and downward motion; also, the set-screwused to adjust the knives, as occasion may-require.

The nature of our invention consist in constructing a frame, l, togetherwith a guide, 0, at the top of the machine; also, another guide, 7",near the center of the machine, by which the knife-rod is confined inits upward and downward motion, the crank-shaft a being placed in thechambers n on the knife-rods b, so that, upon turning it with the crank0, each angle of the crank-shaft a, actingin the chambers n on theknife-rods b, causes, as shown, the movement ofthe kni vesg by whichthey come in contact with the block on, thereby chopping the meat.

at is the set-screw in the lower partiof the knife-rod, used to adjustthe knives.

k is the tub in which the meat is placed to be chopped.

J is the standard or post by which the tub is guided in its rotarymotion.

'i is the ratchet around the lower edge of the tub.

h is the lever operating on the ratchet, thereby causing the movement ofthe tub, the lever being driven bya pin in the end of the crankshaft.

The knives y are placed in a diagonal position, four of them beingplaced on each side of the standard, making a cross-cut in the meatduring the revolution of the tub.

The crank can be turned either way, the tub always moving one way.

Having fully described the machine, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure ,by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the crankshaft a, the application of the chambers 'non the kniferods b, the diagonal position of the knives, and theoperation of the ratchet, in the manner and for the purpose asdescribed.

GEO. W. SARGENT. PLUMER H. GHESLEY.

Witnesses:

DAVID WEBSTER, DAVID V. THOMSON.

